Eleven years ago, Sonic Adventure 2 was a divisive game. It was a turning point in the series, when a lot of fans started to write the series off. It’s often considered the beginning of ...
Read More »New Little King’s Story Review
It’s hardly surprising that 2009’s Little King’s Story was a critical darling. As a clever amalgam of kingdom simulation, real-time strategy, and light role-playing elements, the game stands as one of the better third party ...
Read More »Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit Review
SeanNOLA’s Take: Hey Sean, we got Hell Yeah in for review. I remembered you were interested at E3 – do you want to review it?” DEagle’s statement is entirely true. I was in fact very ...
Read More »PS2 Classic- La Pucelle: Tactics Review
What is the concept? Hoping to duplicate the unanticipated success of 2003’s Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, publisher Mastiff swiftly secured the rights to Nippon Ichi’s previous game. Released stateside the subsequent year, La Pucelle: Tactics ...
Read More »Dogfight 1942 Review- Hellcats on Your Hard Drive
What is the concept? Originally titled Combat Wings: The Great Battles of World War II and intended for release as a full-priced retail disk, Dogfight 1942 has alternatively arrived as an Xbox Live Arcade download. ...
Read More »Joe Danger 2: The Movie Review
What is the concept? The impetus behind the original Joe Danger began on a serendipitous lark, as the team at Hello Games unearthed an antiquated Evel Knievel stunt cycle. Anyone who has ever seen the ...
Read More »Mark of the Ninja Review
Across nearly two decades, developers have been shoehorning stealth mission into games not designed around furtiveness. Whether tasking Young Link with sneaking past soldiers in Ocarina of Time or having players skulk around the habitually ...
Read More »Rock Band Blitz Review
As both time and the death of Guitar Hero have shown, the Rock Band franchise is the king of the music game genre. From fully-functional guitars and basses to a working laser light show and ...
Read More »Zen Pinball 2+Plants Vs. Zombies Table Review
Preceding the launch of Pinball FX 2 onto Xbox Live, developer Zen Studios referred to their steel ball simulation as a “platform”, rather than use a more orthodox descriptor such as “game”. For some critics, ...
Read More »Lights, Camera, Party! Review
What is the concept? As both the Wiimote and Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral have demonstrated, motion-sensing devices have helped the mini-game genre to proliferate. Similarly, Sony’s Move controller has spurned an assemblage of wand-waggling titles, from ...
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